Xaverian Brothers High School
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Xaverian Brothers High School (XBHS), founded in 1963 by the Xaverian Brothers, is a private, Catholic
secondary school for boys on a 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) campus in Westwood, Massachusetts
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
.
Sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers
religious order, XBHS offers a rigorous college preparatory program. The school attracts students from more than 70 communities in eastern Massachusetts
and Rhode Island
and is well-recognized for its highly educated faculty, academic resources and athletics.
Xaverian is a Catholic
college preparatory school for boys in grades 9-12. The school is a Xaverian Brothers Sponsored School[Congregation of St. Francis Xavier] that enrolls 900 students from over 70 different communities. The establishment took place in 1962 on the same plot of land in Westwood, Massachusetts
. Today, there are over 7,900 alumni living all around the globe. Xaverian is known for their highly educated staff in which over 75% hold graduate degrees from some of today's most competitive colleges. Every classroom has a Smart Board, and teachers have the ability to utilize five different computer labs that are available to meet with classes.
A unique aspect to Xaverian is its Department Centers. There are six Department Centers for Mathematics, English, Social Studies, World Languages, Theology, and three science labs (Biology, Chemistry and Physics). Each department is staffed with teachers who are available during the day and before and after school for assistance for any student.
Xaverian's rival is St. John's Preparatory School. The Cross-country team won 6 Catholic Conference titles in the last 7 years. The Alpine Ski Team won the Mass Bay ski League East-Large in 2011.
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Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
secondary school for boys on a 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) campus in Westwood, Massachusetts
Westwood, Massachusetts
Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,618 at the 2010 census. In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Westwood 13th on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States. Boston Magazine listed Gay Street in Westwood on its...
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States. It comprises several counties of the state of Massachusetts...
.
Sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers
Xaverian Brothers
The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a religious order founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier...
religious order, XBHS offers a rigorous college preparatory program. The school attracts students from more than 70 communities in eastern Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
and Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
and is well-recognized for its highly educated faculty, academic resources and athletics.
Xaverian is a Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
college preparatory school for boys in grades 9-12. The school is a Xaverian Brothers Sponsored School[Congregation of St. Francis Xavier] that enrolls 900 students from over 70 different communities. The establishment took place in 1962 on the same plot of land in Westwood, Massachusetts
Westwood, Massachusetts
Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,618 at the 2010 census. In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Westwood 13th on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States. Boston Magazine listed Gay Street in Westwood on its...
. Today, there are over 7,900 alumni living all around the globe. Xaverian is known for their highly educated staff in which over 75% hold graduate degrees from some of today's most competitive colleges. Every classroom has a Smart Board, and teachers have the ability to utilize five different computer labs that are available to meet with classes.
A unique aspect to Xaverian is its Department Centers. There are six Department Centers for Mathematics, English, Social Studies, World Languages, Theology, and three science labs (Biology, Chemistry and Physics). Each department is staffed with teachers who are available during the day and before and after school for assistance for any student.
Fall
- Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
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- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
Winter
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- Winter TrackAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
- Alpine SkiingAlpine skiingAlpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
- Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
- WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
- PowerliftingPowerliftingPowerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
Spring
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- Outdoor TrackAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- RugbyRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
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Athletic History
In 2004, Xaverian's baseball team won the Division 1 State Championship, and was ranked the 24th best team in the country by USA Today. In 2005 Xaverian's baseball team won the Catholic Conference Title. In 2009, Xaverian's football team won the Division 1 Super Bowl finishing off with an undefeated season. To win its sixth state title. In 2008, the powerlifting team won their fifth straight state title. In 2006, the outdoor track team won the MIAA All State Meet. In 2010, the baseball team were finalists in the Division 1 State Championship.Xaverian's rival is St. John's Preparatory School. The Cross-country team won 6 Catholic Conference titles in the last 7 years. The Alpine Ski Team won the Mass Bay ski League East-Large in 2011.
Xaverian Theater
Xaverian's theatrical performances have been in existence since Xaverian first opened in the late 1960s. Since its first production, "Take Time Out" Xaverian has performed over 75 shows. Xaverian presents a fall drama, a spring musical, and two sketch comedy shows and live music performances dubbed "Live @ the X". The Theater Arts Program at Xaverian is currently run by Matthew Cavanaugh ‘96.Performance History
| Year | Performance 1 | Performance 2 | Performance 3 | Year | Performance 1 | Performance 2 | Performance 3 | ||
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| '67 | Take Time Out | '68 | It's The Most | ||||||
| '69 | Life | Zoo Story | '70 | The New Touch | Waiting for Godot | ||||
| '71 | Bravo | '72 | Razz-ma-Jazz | ||||||
| '73 | The Sky's the Limit | Child's Play | '74 | The Music Man | |||||
| '75 | West Side Story West Side Story West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins... >Picnique en Compagne |
'76 | Fiddler on the Roof | Stalag 17 | |||||
| '77 | Anything Goes | The Real Inspector Hound | '78 | Cabaret | The Crucible | ||||
| '79 | Kiss Me Kate | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82... > |
'80 | West Side Story | The Lion in Winter | ||||
| '81 | Most Happy Fella | Man from All Season's | '82 | Guys and Dolls | |||||
| '83 | Rashomon | '84 | George M. | The Real Inspector Hound | |||||
| '85 | Oklahoma! | '86 | West Side Story | Mass Appeal | |||||
| '87 | Jesus Christ, Superstar | Invitation to Murder | '88 | Working | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | ||||
| '89 | Anything Goes | '90 | Grease | The Foreigner | |||||
| '91 | Damn Yankees Damn Yankees Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League... >Wait Until Dark |
'92 | West Side Story | The Boys Next Door The Boys Next Door (play) The Boys Next Door is a play, written by Tom Griffin. It deals with four mentally disabled men who live in a group home. It takes place over roughly a two month period of time and consists of brief vignettes about their lives... > |
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| '93 | Godspell | Arsenic and Old Lace | '94 | Oklahoma! | Rumors | ||||
| '95 | Guys and Dolls | Len Me a Tenor | '96 | Jesus Christ, Superstar | You Can't Take It With You | ||||
| '97 | The Pajama Game | Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960... > |
'98 | Once on this Island | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | ||||
| '99 | West Side Story | The Warrior - Scandal | Hysteria - Def Leppard | '00 | Damn Yankees | Antigone | |||
| '01 | Li'l Abner | '02 | Anything Goes | Rumors | |||||
| '03 | Crazy for You | The Foreigner | '04 | Godspell Godspell Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway... >Laughter on the 23rd Floor |
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| '05 | Blood Brothers | XNL | Arsenic and Old Lace | '06 | How to Succeed in Business | XNL 2: The "Odd"yssey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ||
| '07 | Pippin | XNL 3 | The Dining Room | '08 | West Side Story | XNL 4 | Flowers for Algernon | ||
| '09 | Damn Yankees | XNL 5 | You Can't Take it With You | '10 | Once On This Island | XNL 6 | It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.... >- |
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Ryken Award
- Mr. James McCarthy - 2010
- Mr. Phillip Penza - 2009
- Ms. Catherine Douglas - 2008
- Mr. Charles Duddy and David Palmieri '93 - 2007
- Dr. Keith Crowley - 2006
- Ms. Paula Duddy - 2005
- Mr. Gerry Lambert '88 - 2004
- Mr. Garrett Bowers '87 - 2003
- Mr. James Conley - 2002
- Mr. James Lewis - 2001
- Ms. Mary Briody - 2000
- Mr. Donald Burke - 1999
- Mr. Charles Stevenson '69 - 1998
- Ms. Eileen Schofield - 1997
- Mr. Charles McNamee - 1996
- Mr. Domenic Lalli - 1995
- Mr. Edward Hardiman '88 - 1994
- Mr. Philip Previte - 1993
Alumni
- Dana BarrosDana BarrosDana Bruce Barros is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers....
- NBA player - Dicky BarrettDicky BarrettRichard Michael Barrett , better known as Dicky Barrett, is the frontman of Ska punk band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and the announcer for Jimmy Kimmel Live...
- Mighty Mighty BossTonesThe Mighty Mighty BosstonesThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...
frontman (left before graduation) - Joe FlemingJoe FlemingJoe Fleming was a Canadian Football League defensive end. Over his ten years in the CFL he played for three teams and did not play during the 2002 CFL season....
- former CFLCanadian Football LeagueThe Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
football player - Matt HasselbeckMatt HasselbeckMatthew Michael Hasselbeck is a National Football League quarterback for the Tennessee Titans. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and traded to Seattle in 2001. After becoming the starter in 2003, Hasselbeck led Seattle to six playoff appearances and...
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. - Tim HasselbeckTim HasselbeckTimothy Thomas "Tim" Hasselbeck is an American ESPN analyst and former professional American football quarterback for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, and Buffalo Bills....
- NFL quarterback. Played at Boston College, was with the New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
. Currently an analyst with ESPN. - Greg ComellaGreg ComellaGregory F. Comella is a former professional American football fullback in the National Football League for the New York Giants, the Tennessee Titans, the Houston Texans and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was the starting full back for the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV against the Baltimore...
- Former NFL fullback. - "Boston" Rob MarianoRob MarianoRobert Carlo "Boston Rob" Mariano is an American television personality, widely known for appearing in several reality shows, including Survivor, and The Amazing Race with his wife, Amber Brkich Mariano. Mariano won Survivor: Redemption Island and the $1,000,000 prize after competing on the show...
- Reality TV Star- Appeared four times on SurvivorSurvivor (TV series)Survivor is a reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...
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- quarterback for the Los Angeles Avengers in the Arena Football League - John Ennis - Los Angeles based Actor and Comedian
- Phill Boucher - Film Composer in Los Angeles. IMDB Link
- Dennis CrowleyDennis CrowleyDennis Crowley is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.-Education:...
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and Foursquare - Dennis House, news anchor and political moderator for WFSB-TV, the CBS station in Hartford, Connecticut
Valedictorians
- 1967 - Richard Czaja '67
- 1968 - Michael Cook '68
- 1969 - Robert Capuano '69
- 1970 - John Daly '70
- 1971 - Peter DiCamillo '71
- 1972 - Mark Czaja '72
- 1973 - Jeffrey Jones '73
- 1974 - Paul Dolan '74
- 1975 - Joseph Kulik '75
- 1976 - William Canavan '76
- 1977 - Christopher Marzilli '77
- 1978 - Stephen Downing '78
- 1979 - Chester Pawlowski '79
- 1980 - John Munzenrider '80
- 1981 - Matthew Garrity '81
- 1982 - Michael Vogel '82
- 1983 - John Sullivan, III '83
- 1984 - John Hargedon '84
- 1985 - Joseph Nedder '85
- 1986 - Stephen Traub '86
- 1987 - Victor Tulli '87
- 1988 - Peter Wong '88
- 1989 - Christopher Mulchay '89
- 1990 - Colin Mulcahy '90
- 1991 - Thomas Gavin '91
- 1992 - Christopher Lenox '92
- 1993 - Matthew Cross '93, Jean Raphael '93
- 1994 - Timothy Gavin '94
- 1995 - David D'Aprile '95
- 1996 - Thomas Sullivan '96, Thomas O'Donnell '96
- 1997 - Christian Roulleau '97
- 1998 - Michael Cincotti '98
- 1999 - James Thatcher '99
- 2000 - John Cooney '00
- 2001 - Stephen Juraschek '01
- 2002 - Peter Quaranto '02
- 2003 - Daniel Jones '03
- 2004 - Allen Pope '04
- 2005 - Chris Gibson '05
- 2006 - Peter Breen '06
- 2007 - Mark Amirault '07
- 2008 - Christopher Cutler '08
- 2009 - John Fisher '09
- 2010 - John Bireley '10
- 2011 - Brandon Sepe '11